Mon, 08/30/2010 - 4:35pm - Posted by: LegalizeFreedom

Are you aware that our troops are in afghanistan growing and cultivating the opium? That was on Geraldo Rivera. 9/11 was a controlled demolition. The official story was a complete lie, with the majority of members from the original 9/11 commission, now admitting the official story was a lie. Jeb when are you going to wake up out of your false left right paradigm, and remember what the true struggle humanity has endured for thousands of years, Freedom vs Tyranny. We are headed for total collapse by design.

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 7:52am - Posted by: Mike

I wholeheartedly agree with only-truth.

And the truth is, I can remember when the construction trades paid very well in relationship to the cost of living. And I do mean all of them, all the trades.

I can remember when one would have been very hard pressed to discover an illegal alien working on any multi-unit residential housing construction project, or any commercial building site, for that matter.

It's now all about 'Greed'

That was in the 1970's when even a construction laborers job paid a decent wage in relationship to the cost of living, I know, because that's how I started out, with a shovel in my hands.

Up until then I'd been a pattern maker sculpting from blueprints. A pattern being the first full scale 3 dimensional mock-up of a product from which a master mold is constructed. I was earning $4.75 per hour after three years, my starting pay had been $3.00, and there were no illegal aliens to be seen where I'd worked at the time.

One day, I asked my employer if maybe I could get a bump in pay up to $5.00 per hour, and his reply was..."Down in Mexico, people will carry huge baskets of corn on their backs, from Sun up to Sun down, all day for just $3.00 a day in pay."

Which brings me back to that shovel in my hand. I'd stopped being a pattern maker, when I'd learned that I could earn $6.00 per hour with a shovel . So I picked up that shovel .

I cleaned ditches behind back-hoes and packed lumber for the carpenters, there wasn't an illegal alien to be seen working on any of the sites. I busted my ass for the people I worked for, heck, everyone did back then. It wasn't very long before I became a carpenter myself.

That was a big step-up, back then.

Back then, most carpenters, or any other tradesman could earn enough to live comfortably on an employees wage. Then the 1980's came, and so did the illegal aliens.

Illegal aliens started to be integrated into the trades because they were willing to work for so much less, and usually their pay was under the table. Wages started being driven down by those willing to work for much less than an American.

At that time, anyway, there were still plenty of manufacturing jobs to be had on the assembly lines here in America.

The competition has taken it's toll, and it's taking it's toll on most Americans.

So, Jeb, pray tell, tell us again how cheap competition has been working for the people in your own trade these days?

It doesn't take a 'swami hat' to see what's coming down the road.

People are going to discover it to be much more difficult to keep sharpening their pencils, when they have finally awakened one day, only to discover themselves unable to afford the cost of a new one, a new pencil that is.

Perhaps, those people may find themselves able 'to adjust' their standard of living all the way down to that of 'Stone Age' cave dwellers, some may even learn they can amuse themselves, by simply scrawling on the walls of their new homes ,with sharpened stones.

Just a thought.

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Edited to add: One less hand..

Wed, 08/04/2010 - 12:49pm - Posted by: LegalizeFreedom

This is high treason by the federal government against the states of this republic.
The federal government can not sue a state, according to the constitution.
We cant blame Arizona for wanting to protect itself from an all out attack by a collapsed country. Mexico has now officially collapsed according to their government. American citizens and police have been murdered, homes have been burned, and 3 counties handed over to mexico.
The truth is the offshore globalist banking cartel that runs the country through the federal reserve wants to use the illegal immigrants as a political and economic weapon against the american people. To lower the standard of living. Lower the wage. Put everyone out of work and reliant on the government. Once given amnesty voting records have shown that they will vote to take our guns, private property, and turn this country into a collapsed narco-police state like mexico.
The country is headed for all out economic collapse, we have 46 states on the virge of bankruptcy, We can no longer afford the welfare and foodstamp bill.
95% of all violence related warrants in california are for illegals. 75% of all murder cases are illegals.
If you want to come here and assimilate to american way of life good for you.
but if you want to come here and wave mexican flags and chant kill the gringo. As a red blooded american I have to defend my family against what i consider a threat to my safety.

Wed, 08/04/2010 - 10:15am - Posted by: only-truth

I will only comment on one part.

.......Major segments of our economy are built around low-cost, illegal workers: agriculture, construction, food/lodging services, for example..............

Lets pull construction from the above. It used to be a very livable wage. I know I was in construction and have seen the decline in wages over a long period. So that is a bad example. Next the food and lodging services. Yes always was fairly low pay but citizens worked it as a stepping stone. You have to start in the work place somewhere.. Agriculture. Have you seen prices of food drop since the illegals are in the fields now? Used to be the teenagers (like me at that time) where allowed to work the fields for money. Received a great education on work ethics along with the pay.

I think you all get the drift.

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 7:33pm - Posted by: LegalizeFreedom

The numbers I saw in Bloomberg concerning the overall cumulative debt are more around the ballpark of say 600 trillion. We know to take these numbers with a grain of salt because the top economists in the world put the real number at about 2.5 quadrillion.
This is what the Federal Reserve Act, and the formation of a private central bank issuing and controlling the value of the currency, got us. A systematic destruction of the value of the dollar and the global economy. The Federal Reserve system is faulty, they loan money to our government at interest. An interest that can never be paid back.
This debt is made up out of thin air. We have a criminal unconstitutional, unelected offshore banking cartel who made up a bunch of debt out of thin air, with themselves as the beneficiaries. These Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan crooks are running the white house. Everyone in Obamas administration is all Wall street. Thats why your seeing endless transfer of wealth from the middle class to Wall street. And they are saying EVERYTHING must go to wall street. They are introducing hundreds of new taxes So get ready for our utility bill to skyrocket, and just pay everything over to the bankers. All the wealth must go to the bankers as whats left of our economy is sold downriver by design. Global Totalitarian government here we come.

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 7:42pm - Posted by: LegalizeFreedom

What a great time to go to war with Iran now too. A perfect distraction so the bankers can further loot the economy.
The unemployment crisis is a direct result of NAFTA. What did we think was going to happen? giving incentive to corporations to move oversees?
We need to look at the real problem here. A private central bank issuing the currency. A direct violation of the constitution. Investigate the criminals and hold them accountable for every dime. Only then we can begin to restore a crippled economy. And move away from service sector and restore our right in history as one of the most productive, prosperous, free, and hardworking people in the world

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 7:16am - Posted by: Mike

Jeb,

My understanding of late, is that manual labor jobs in our local vineyards, actually pay as well (or even better) as manual labor jobs in our local logging industry.

If I was a local choker setter wondering how to keep his family fed, I'd devote some serious thought to the idea of pruning grapevines for a living.

Do Yamhill County high schools offer class's in Occupational Horticulture?

Do our local vineyards engage in any preferencial hiring of American military veterans, through, the Veterans Adminstrations assistance programs?

http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/emp_resources.htm

Fri, 06/25/2010 - 9:53am - Posted by: LegalizeFreedom

First of all I enjoyed this article.
Did anyone else notice? the "libertarian party" seems to be the only one adressing the real problems in our society today: The Federal Reserve, the unconstitutional income tax (a direct, unapportioned tax is unconstitutional). Big Government A.K.A. big brother.
The quote for libertarians is somewhat taken out of context and i feel does a disservice to the true meaning of libertarian. We are currently bankrupt. Does it make sense to keep spending recklessly on government services that we dont really need and that only serve to worsen the debt?
The democratic party quote is laughable. Fiscal responsibility? hah! Obama has spent more money than any president in history. in just his first year.
The Tea Party was originally a grassroots movement started by Ron Paul supporters, it has since been infiltrated by gov't controlled opposition propagandist Glenn Beck, as well as Sarah Palin and other disgusting Neo-cons. It has been demonized repeatedly in the mainstream media, calling people who disagree with Obama and the other globalists, RACIST!
A disgusting smear piece from Chris Mathews on MSNBC called "Rise of the new right," demonizes anyone who is pro-2nd amendment and pro-bill of rights, as racist, fringe, terrorists. And more importantly sets the prescedent for staged terror attacks to be blamed on the american people.
The false, "left-right paradigm". which we all know both parties are bought and paid for by the same big money. They serve to divide the country on petty issues and keep us from confronting the real un-elected criminals who illegitimately run this country through private corporate interests.
Id like to see more coverage of issues surrounding, human rights, freedom, government transparency and accountability, of the ongoing onslaught, on the bill of rights and constitution. Warrantless wire-tapping, the end of posse comentatus and habeus corpus. Foreign troops being trained to take on american citizens and take our guns. Now we can literally disappear into a black hole with no trial and no contact with lawyer or right to know your charges, and be tortured.
Is this really the america that past generations fought for? or has it been hijacked by offshore interests who want to collapse america and bring us into a global government? Please adress these issues before its to late. We are heading into total Tyranny, with a capitol T.